rab@mulga.oz (Rainer Berger) (11/24/87)
In article <19@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM>, rolandi@gollum.Columbia.NCR.COM (rolandi) writes: > > Meanwhile, can anyone give me some pointers to research that examines > the relative merits of touchscreens versus "mice". > > -w.rolandi You could try the following article: "Touch-sensitive screens: the technologies and their application" Int. Journal of Man-Machine Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sept 86), pp. 249-269 This paper covers various techniques that use touch to enter information into a computer. An attempt is made to evaluate and rank them. One aspect that is relevant in comparing touchscreens and mice, is the "coarseness" of the input. A pointer can be positioned fairly accurately with a mouse, but with a touchscreen different choices, say, must be further apart. Rainer =========================== UUCP: {seismo,mcvax,ukc,ubc-vision}!munnari!rab ARPA: rab%munnari.oz@seismo.css.gov CSNET: rab%munnari.oz@australia